First, it was chess. Then it was Go. Now it’s basic reading comprehension.

The robots are coming.

Two artificial intelligence programs created by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba and Microsoft beat humans on a Stanford University reading comprehension test, Alibaba said Monday. Alibaba took the honor as the creator of the first program to ever beat a human in a reading comprehension test, scoring 82.44 percent out of a perfect 100 and narrowly edging past the human’s 82.304 percent.

A different program built by Microsoft scored higher than Alibaba’s at 82.605. Microsoft’s took the same test as Alibaba’s but was finalized a day later, according to Bloomberg.

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The test known as Stanford Question Answering Dataset, or SQuAD for short, asks the contestants — human and robot — to answer provide exact answers to more than 100,000 questions drawn from more than 500 Wikipedia articles. The test is designed to see if artificial intelligence can process large amounts of information before fully comprehending it and offering precise answers.

Seung covers Apple and personal technology for the Bay Area News Group. He was previously a technology reporter for Newsweek and a weekly columnist for the San Francisco Examiner. Seung grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from UC Berkeley.